[Troy Welch]

Hi, Happy New Year to the Commons in a Box Team

We are moving our development install to a production server and in preparation for a move to PHP 7 I ran the PHP Compatibility Checker plugin.

There were several warnings and a small few errors. I just wanted to run the errors past you guys to see if they are anything to worry about. The last error looks like it might be a missing ; but my php is ‘developing’ and I don’t know your code base as well as you guys. (obviously)

<p class=”p1″>Name: BuddyPress Docs</p>
<p class=”p1″>FILE: /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-docs/includes/query-builder.php</p>
<p class=”p1″>————————————————————————————————————————-</p>
<p class=”p1″>FOUND 1 ERROR AFFECTING 1 LINE</p>
<p class=”p1″>————————————————————————————————————————-</p>
<p class=”p1″>521 | ERROR | ‘clone’ is a reserved keyword introduced in PHP version 5.0 and cannot be invoked as a function (T_CLONE)</p>
<p class=”p1″>————————————————————————————————————————-</p>
<p class=”p1″>Name: Commons In A Box</p>
<p class=”p1″>FILE: /var/www/html/wp-content/themes/cbox-theme/engine/ICE/lib/textile/classTextile.php</p>
<p class=”p1″>—————————————————————————————————————–</p>
<p class=”p1″>FOUND 2 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 3 LINES</p>
<p class=”p1″>—————————————————————————————————————–</p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”Apple-converted-space”>  </span>364 | WARNING | Use of deprecated PHP4 style class constructor is not supported since PHP 7.</p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”Apple-converted-space”>  </span>617 | ERROR <span class=”Apple-converted-space”>  </span>| Function split() is deprecated since PHP 5.3 and removed since PHP 7.0; use preg_split instead</p>
<p class=”p1″>1531 | ERROR <span class=”Apple-converted-space”>  </span>| preg_replace() – /e modifier is deprecated since PHP 5.5 and removed since PHP 7.0</p>
<p class=”p1″>—————————————————————————————————————–</p>
<p class=”p1″></p>
<p class=”p1″>FILE: /var/www/html/wp-content/themes/cbox-theme/engine/includes/buddypress/bp-widgets.php</p>
<p class=”p1″>——————————————————————————————</p>
<p class=”p1″>FOUND 1 ERROR AFFECTING 1 LINE</p>
<p class=”p1″>——————————————————————————————</p>
<p class=”p1″>43 | ERROR | Using a variable argument on break or continue is forbidden since PHP 5.4</p>

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<p class=”p1″></p>
<p class=”p1″>Thanks,</p>
<p class=”p1″>Troy</p>

[Ray]

Thanks for looking into PHP7 compatibility with CBOX, Troy.

I’ve run cbox-theme and buddypress-docs through a script called php7cc and only cbox-theme has major errors.

I’ve opened an issue for cbox-theme here:
https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cbox-theme/issues/253

buddypress-docs has a potential warning with the following:

File: wp-content\plugins\buddypress-docs\includes\addon-folders.php     
> Line 859: Possible array element creation during by-reference assignment                                     
    $ref[$folder->ID] =& $tree[$folder->ID];                                                                   
> Line 878: Possible array element creation during by-reference assignment                                     
    $ref[$folder->ID] =& $ref[$folder->post_parent]->children[$folder->ID];

I’ll let @cbox_admin comment on that.

[Troy Welch]

Thanks for the follow-up Ray. We are using the CBox theme with our install and buddypress-docs also figures fairly prominently in our use cases.

We are looking to move our project to a production server for testing next week for an end of the month launch. Would you suggest we hang back with PHP 5.6 for the time being? We did build on our dev server with 5.6, it might be more prudent.

 

Thanks again,

Troy

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